Charlie-
Thanks for your info. I am going to give a go at using a product called "Bare
Metal". I've bought Chrome and Ultra Chrome versions and will compare them
before applying them to the prepped shells. The manufacturer tells me the
material will take decals. They promote it for doing detail work on model cars
and planes and such but I'm not sure anyone has tried covering an entire shell.
If anyone has experience with this stuff please chime in. Fortunately, this
product is removable and I won't ruin the shell. I'll let the group know how it
goes and post some pics when I'm done.
On the subject of phases, are you telling me that Joe's shell (based on Life
Like E6) is Phase II, not as delivered. I want to model the Texas Zephyr's E5s
in summer 1940 to 1942 timeframe. Do I need to change something to get the
right version? Black striped or red stripes? I'm just developing my CBQ
reference library and haven't distilled the nuances of E5 configurations.
Thanks,
Keith
--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, "Charlie Vlk" <cvlk@...> wrote:
>
> Keith-
>
>
>
> The units came from the factory with only the striping and lettering in
> paint. Everything else was Stainless Steel. There was some variation in
> the level of polish but I would just go ahead and paint everything in Alclad
> Stainless unless you want to research all the photos available and try to
> develop an area by area diagram of varying Stainless Steel finishes.
>
>
>
> The upcoming Kato unit will first be offered in the As-Delivered scheme.
> Black stripes. The unit at IRM has a replacement pilot (there were three
> different styles of Pilots on the E5s as delivered) and the IRM version is
> one style of the replacement regular steel pilots which were painted
> silver(some had what look like E7 pilots applied which do not follow the
> contours of the originals).
>
>
>
> Check photos for the unit you are doing..you may want to match the "phase"
> of the unit as well. the Valerio shell, being based on the LifeLike E6, is
> closest to a Phase II (the Kato will be a PhaseI which is like an E3 with
> the parallel to the rails roof radiators vs. the perpendicular style of the
> E6).
>
>
>
> Charlie Vlk
>
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